Formatting an artist name

What belongs and what doesn't belong in the artist name field, why featured artists aren't written into the name, and why the spelling must always match the profile.

The Artist Name is the professional or band name exactly as you want it to appear in stores. It's a field for that alone: no roles, descriptions or featured artists.

What goes in the artist name

Only the project's name: your artist name, your band's or your collective's.

Write it exactly as it should read in Spotify, Apple Music and the rest: with its real spelling, spacing and punctuation.

What doesn't go in the name

Avoid putting in the name field:

Roles or descriptions: (prod. by …), DJ if it isn't genuinely part of the name, Official, Music, Beats.
Promotional or version text: Remastered, Live, 2024. Version has its own field.
Decorative symbols, emojis or extra spaces.
The song title or the label name.

Featured artists don't go in the name

Don't add feat. X, ft. X or with X to the primary artist name.

Featured artists are registered separately, in the Featured Artist (Featuring) field or with the matching role. Stores build the "feat." on the page themselves from that data.

Multiple primary artists

If a release or a track is by two or more artists, add them as separate artists with the primary artist role. Don't write A & B as a single name.

Keep them to 3 at most (4 on a single): with more, Spotify shows the track as "Various Artists".

Always write it the same way

Always use the same spelling — the same capitalization, spacing and punctuation — and make it match the artist's profile in UXEM.

Any variation (an extra accent, a different space, "and" instead of "&") makes stores treat it as a different artist and split your catalog across several pages.

Capitalization, accents and symbols

Use normal upper and lower case. Avoid ALL CAPS unless the name is a stylized trademark; some stores normalize or reject it.
Keep the accents and special characters that are genuinely part of the name. Don't strip them "to simplify".

The public name is not the legal name

The Artist Name is the public name. The legal name (First and Last name, or each member's for a group) is a separate profile field, and it's the one used for composer, lyricist and producer credits.